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Greywolf McGrowler
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Very good game session to start off Chapter three.
Rakhir started off by meeting some of the new players Alek the monk and Knut the Rogue and telling them of what has been going on in the world. Rose joined them by the fire making sure that Rakhir didn't miss anything.
Not too long afterwards Enrith and Mathais came into town joining them. While everyone was getting ready Rakhir went out to the docks only to see the dock guard get attacked by shadowblades. Running to get his companions they all charged into battle. They weren't quite prepared as the Shadowblades were for them. Mathais, Rose, Rakhir, and Alek all fell to the Shadowblades. Luckily, someone bought a raise dead scroll and one by one they all were brought back to the land of the living. From then on they went Shadowblade hunting with no more casualties.
After a visit with Captain Bartley notifying of what occured at the docks they went after the giant ants to the North outside of town. On their way they were joined by Tal Silverstein a dwarf who could come in handy underground. The ants weren't too much of a problem though after killing the Queen Ant Tal noticed a cave in and began swinging away to clear the rubble.
The cave in led to a passage filled by drow protecting a gate. The group put on some Shadowblade hoods pretending to be the enemy. The Dark Elves really didn't care much for them, but let them pass nonetheless. They entered into a drow military city which looked like they were getting an army ready.
From there things were getting late so they headed back up a ladder into the Northern Plains of Barnor and back to town to tell the Captain the Ants have been taking care of.
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This game session went very well from a DM's perspective.
It started as Rakhir lead the group to the Pits of Gothoria of what used to be the Hills of Goth. Looking over the edge there was a long ways to the bottom. After doing a little sight seeing they headed down into the caves. While Knut continued to explore above.
Rakhir handed in a letter to the Drow Captain found earlier on a Shadowblade Courier. There seems to be an alliance between the Drow and the Shadowblades for the time being.
After leaving the cave they met up with Knut who was far above them. He found another cave, but wasn't sure what was inside. So he headed back down, and joined the others.
The party continued onward finding more drow settlements within more caves. Until they came upon one cave called the Cave of Water. Assuming it held an Elemental Stone they tried to continue in the cave, but the water was electrified. Though there were two peculiar pillars outside of the water. Rakhir and Knut ran into the water with the electrical current getting stronger each moment. Knut wasn't fortunate enough to survive, but Rakhir made it out with the stone until he passed the strange pillars only to be teleported away somewhere and possibly the stone returned into the cave once more.
With two of the group dead and missing Rose, Mathais and Enrith continued on a bit further. They find a Drow Tavern called the Dragons Claw. Rose had a small conversation with one of the drow belonging to the House of Zexus.
That ended the game session soon afterwards
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Things started off a bit slow waiting for people to come online
Once again Rose and Mathais went down into the dark caves of Gothoria, but this time with Onyx a small elven rogue and Tal Silverstein an stout little dwarf.
On their way into the first tunnel they met a strange shadowblade. Rose took a closer look at him and noticed that he wasn't all flesh. With a quick prayer to whomever she worships the Shadowblade exploded into a lot of blood and guts.
The party ventured further into the pits exploring each level for new caves until they came upon the Cave of Wind. It was a very dizzy experience for every few steps the wind would circle them and spin them around which didn't make it easy with creatures of air within the cave. Rose grabbed the symbol of air and they all made for the exit. Rose took a careful step toward the pillars outside the cave door hoping not to be whisked away. A moment later she found that she was still amoung friends and still alive.
Outside the cave were a few dark elves that belonged to the House or Zexus. They apparently were watching and waiting for Rose, Mathais, Onyx and Tal to come out with the Symbol of Wind. After a few hours of debate Rose was unwilling to give it up and to her dismay they killed her on the spot along with Tal and Onyx who tried to defend her. After a quick search of the dead bodies Isendel the drow who killed Rose, Onyx and Tal walked away from the bodies very upset for not recovering the much coveted artifact.
Mathais who stood by and didn't defend Rose watched the onslaught of his comapanions and lived. After Isendel left with his two dark friends Mathais began bringing life back to his companions. Then began the debate on what kind of repercussions Rose's decision of not giving Isendel the artifact would have on their continuing quest.
At this point the game session ended.
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Well this session was off to a slow start. I added a new wireless router and it made it difficult for everyone to connect. Once everyone was able to get in about 30 min after the game started things started to move right along.
Everyone started off by meeting in the Broken Bow. Joining the party this session is, Alléra an Enchantress of sorts and Arc Illitan who's good with the sword and knows the outdoor lands. Alera and Arc joined, Onyx, Rose, Mathais, Rakhir, and Tal.
From the Broken Bow they moved on to talk to Miko Tasheka. They showed him an elemental stone they retrieved from the Cave of Wind. He told them a little about it and said that he would keep it safe in town for it seemed that other mages can sense the magical stone wherever they went.
After talking to Miko they moved on to a Cave North of the Heartridge Cemetary. This cave turned out to be the Elemental Cave of Earth. Inside another puzzle awaited. This puzzle was timed and was rock hard, but they managed to break their way to the Symbol of Earth and defeat any Earth Elementals that came in their way with 3 hours out of 12 to spare.
When they emerged from the cave Kaigan and Zachander along with two Shadowblades were waiting for them. Thinking they would go unnoticed they were wrong since Kaigan knew Mathais previously and could identify him with the sword he carried. Zachander could sense the stone they just retrieved from the cave and after a few words it was an all out battle. Fortunately, Rose was able to call forth the help of her god and turn the two undead Shadowblades which made the battle go quickly.
Soon afterwards, the party went back to Miko to return the Symbol of Earth and call it a night.
All in all besides the connection issues in the begining the session went quite well.
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This game session went well except an hour in the server dropped everyone for no apparent reason, but everyone was able to get back in within 5 min and continue.
As do most game sessions everyone started out at the Broken Bow Tavern/Inn. They had a few drinks and a few laughs and a good nights sleep before heading out to the Pits of Gothoria.
Once there traveling through the tunnels of Gothoria Alléra started to recall some moments and areas of when she used to be a drow slave. In an old abandoned town Rose wandered off into a broken down home, but unfortunately there turned up nothing in particular.
The party continued and found the Elemental Cave of Water. Once in there they sent Rose forth to retrieve the Symbol of Water. She stepped in the water and ran, but each few seconds she got an electrical shock each stronger than the next. She ran to the Water Altar and took the symbol and pulled a chain nearby. Though running back to the entrance the electrical shocks were just too much for her and her life just gave way.
Rakhir tried to run in and retrieve her but once again the jolts of electricity were too much for the amount of time he spent in there. Soon after there was a big explosion and the electrical shocks faded away, but were replaced by Lightning Elementals. Tal, Onyx and Alléra went in and brought life back to Rakhir and Rose and prepared for battle. It was a chaotic battle but in the end they got the Symbol of Water and were ready to leave the Cave once and for all.
They assumed that they would be getting some resistance like they always do when they leave an Elemental Cave so they decided to make a run for it. There were drow from the House of Zexus waiting for them. They were quite perplexed to see Shadowblades running from the cave and asked them to stop. When they didn't they started to cut them down one by one. Though luckily Rose and Onyx were far ahead and were able to make it back to give the stone back to Miko for safe keeping. Unfortunately, Rakhir, and Alléra were sliced and diced quickly and Tal was beaten to unconciousness. The drow looked over the bodies for an Elemental Symbol but found none so they took what looked of interest to them some gold from one and a nice bow from another.
Rose and Onyx then ran back and revived their fallen friends and made camp there for the night/game.
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Things weren't as exciting as the last session, but no one really got mortally wounded either.
The party started outside of the Cave of water. Onyx did a lot of scouting ahead as the caves went further down searching for the last Elemental Stone. The next cave had a tavern with some drow patrons within it. The group decided to pass going in and continued on into the next cave.
The next cavern held a squad of drow soldiers and a tower named, The Tower of Yakri. Onyx tried to gain entry, but the door would not open for her.
After leaving the cave they came into the Pits of Gothoria once more and searched for the next cave entrance. On their search they ran into a few ogres which they easily took care of. Soon afterwards they found the next cave which lead to a Drow Temple and some Umberhulk slave cells. Within the slave cells they fought in an arena for some special rings that help protect them against the confusing gaze from Umberhulks.
Rakhir, Allera, Rose, Tal, and Onyx continued into a restricted area to Shadowblades. The cave was dug out by umberhulk slaves. With the rings in hand the party was able to easily kill all the umberhulks. They exited the cave and found themselves outside the last and final cave. Assuming it must be the Cave of Fire. The group decided it was a good time to camp and call it a night.
Good session everyone. Can't wait to see how the next one goes.
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This session went quite well with just three players: Velthorin, Rose, and Tal Silverstein
Starting at the bottom of the Pits of Gothoria they went into the last remaining cave. Unexpectantly, they found some undead dragon wyrmlings. They weren't too hard for them to bring them to their death once more. Looking around the cave some more they found the entrace to the Trial of Fire. Though they were unable to gain entry through the doors. They continued searching the cave and found more undead and a very ornate door with some strange magical locks upon it.
While they examined the door they heard a loud noise enter the cave. It yelled out, "My children, oh my children!" Then sniffed around and said, "The town shall pay!" Then the large creature was gone.
The party looked around for a few minutes and then before they knew what happened they were with the rest of the town in the underground jail cells trying to escape the torment of an undead dragon tearing about the town above.
Asking Captain Bartley what was going on he said, "Miko Tasheka teleported you here a half an hour ago. In the meantime he has been above ground trying to fend off the terrible dragon to buy time for the rest of the townfolk to go below ground here. He said that he summoned help. The party began to rush above ground only to find a large undead dragon fighting with a large golden dragon. Soon after coming above ground the undead dragon flew off scowling, "I'll be back Galeron! You haven't seen the last of Vracknor!"
Rose came up to the large Golden dragon and asked, who was that dragon and what did he want? He said that he was an ancient red dragon killed long ago, and that he is after his heart the Heartstone. If he would get his hands on it he would become more powerful than ever with power over life and undeath. Looking over some of the wreckage from the buildings they found the body of Miko Tasheka, and they asked if there was anything that could be done for him. Galeron said, "I'm sorry I was too late and now he is too far gone to be brought back." A few words later Galeron took flight and left Rose, Tal, and Velthorin to help bring the town back together.
At this moment Chapter 3 ended, and chapter 4 began.
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